Fun times.
1) I was logged out randomly of messenger on my iPhone for the first time ever, i think a week ago. Like messenger completely reset for no reason, and i had to put in my cellphone number again. I don't know if this has to do with the breach. Also i received several snapchat 2-factor codes without requesting them on my cellphone.
2) If the message history has leaked it will absolutely unimaginable consequences for many people, myself included. Nothing incriminating but enough to make me paranoid and make loads of people shameful, loose their partners, loose their friends, loose their employment, have their reputation tainted forever. It's absolutely insane if it shows up in an indexed fashion somewhere. Black mirror is becoming real.
3) For the first time i am actually thinking about seriously migrating from "all corporate services" - and only searching through TOR through VPN on duckduckgo if i have to search for something personal.
4) I will probably forget all about migrating to privacy oriented services in a few days.
5) Living these days can make me slightly paranoid, a new feeling i guess, that has not been experienced by most humans before. The feeling of being watched constantly, of being potentially revealed in some vague fashion. A strange and unhealthy feeling for sure, no matter how banal your life probably is to the rest of the world. Now everyone knows how it is to live in eastern germany under STASI, or like in Iraq or Syria before the breakdowns, - just potentially worse if these leaks get real.
I think "privacy" is a basic human necessity right at the bottom of the Maslow pyramid even though a common trope in pop culture is that privacy is a new phenomenon.
I think that is utterly wrong, a tribe back in the days was like an organism, an extension of the self, that also required privacy from other tribes.
Regardless of who requires it, right from the earliest, animals and humans have been hiding them selves both from predators and from their prey. Later the mammalian brain extended this need for privacy as a basic necessity in the interaction in basic civilisation, from politics, to civic life, in family life and in war. It's all a game of showing and telling.
This vague fuzzy paranoid panopticon feeling is devastating.
6) In a few years neural nets will trawl the net and run stylometric analysis - everyone will be ranked and have complete psychological profiles created, all their whereabouts will be mapped completely by inference, you will know everything everyone has done for the last 20 years in complete detail including their desires and emotions. Lol